Re: [LEAPSECS] the year 2100

2016-12-20 Thread Brooks Harris
On 2015-02-02 09:17 PM, Steve Allen wrote: On Wed 2015-01-28T17:05:16 +, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ: So why don't you simply list all the estimates as we find them ? As far as I can tell, these guesses/estimates are not inferior to the ones you already list ? Listing them all would be

Re: [LEAPSECS] Leap second smearing test results

2016-12-20 Thread Steve Summit
Zefram wrote: > ...the better way to implement the smear would be to shift it downstream: > clock synchronisation should be all unadulterated NTP handling the leap > as a leap, and the lying should happen later, probably where the client > ntp instances are steering their system clock. I've been

Re: [LEAPSECS] Leap second smearing test results

2016-12-20 Thread Zefram
Martin Burnicki wrote: >https://www.meinberg.de/download/burnicki/ntp_leap_smearing_test_results.pdf This is interesting. The smear actually achieved on the downstream ntp is a complicated function of the smear introduced upstream. Your graphs nicely illustrate the lesson that Google has